Ancient pottery found in Egypt

Near the Egyptian city of Alexandria, in Tibet Mutawah, archaeologists are excavating the territory of a Roman-era pottery workshop. The industrial building was equipped with kilns, and two of them were cut right into the rock. One furnace is very well preserved, so the researchers studied its design in detail. In the process of firing products, one opening of the furnace was covered with clay blocks, and fuel was placed in the other.

Not far from the plant there are about a hundred graves that appeared here long before the founding of the enterprise. To the north of the ancient Roman kilns, archaeologists unearthed kilns from Byzantine times, which in the Middle Ages were turned into a small burial with two graves. Another building was a warehouse for dishes. In addition, scientists found the ruins of buildings in which workers temporarily lived. The premises belong to the Ptolemaic era. Fragments of amphorae, coins, parts of terracotta sculptures, an amulet and a crown with feathers.